When we summarized the relationships between mortality and BMI and mortality and body fat percentage, we were describing general trends apparent in the fully adjusted results presented in the article's Table 3 and Figure 2. Although it is true that not all quintiles were statistically significant, progressive trends are apparent in these results. We explicitly point out the significant results in the text of the Results section, and all CIs were provided in Table 3.

Quintile-based analysis is a commonly used method to examine relationships among anthropometric indices and mortality and was our primary analysis chosen a priori. Appendix Table 2 of our article also provided an analysis based on World Health Organization thresholds that was consistent with the quintile-based analysis.